This weekend I decided I’d go back to Windows XP. For no good reason, my install of Vista started acting up: everything and anything I plugged in would suddenly require drivers. From my keyboard and mouse to my camera, USB drives and iPod. Didn’t make any sense at all because they were all working without problems, but all of a sudden, they all needed drivers. I thought an update from Windows messed something up, so I tried restore points, uninstalling whatever I had installed lately… no luck.
So, I decided I’d wipe it all out and go back to XP. What a breeze! Reformated my main HDD, and 30 minutes later I was running XP without any problems. A couple of hours later, after specialized drivers, downloads and a few updates, I was set to go, so I launched my benchmark: Counter Strike Source.
My, oh my! In Vista, I was getting 50 fps at most, with details turned down to low and medium… in XP, I’m hitting 100fps constantly, with everything turned on high! It looks so nice, and it plays so nice :keke:
All my other programs also run great, and I can’t believe I got used to answering questions every 30 seconds asking me if I really wanted to do something.
Maybe part of my problems with Vista is that I don’t own a top-end PC. I have a humble Athlon 64 3400+, with 1.5 GBs of RAM and an nVidia 6800gt. Vista certainly wasn’t using it as well as XP is, so that is why I’ve gone back to XP, and I’ll probably stick to it for a lot longer.
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